Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Subject: Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 18:10:04 -0700 Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net NN5NHK+HPRBtgCC6fb2odwbsa7JGd0NQBqAZXPF41QYl8lZJpv Cancel-Lock: sha1:DnHEnQVCgvz5kGIeH/OIFV54L68= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux:70908 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:19 Mike Easter wrote: > I finally got the Deb 11 KDE non-free booted on the old low resource > machine, which boot was very slow and actually used even more resources > live to the desktop than on the boxen w/ 8G ram. Debian also has a LXDE (as well as LXQt) in its non-free v/s. It suits the 2G much better than the KDE did. It uses 280 meg live to the desktop and seems like a better fit for a low resource machine. It has enough hundreds of megs free after the system and desktop to do something. -- Mike Easter